Dear authors!

Scholarly manuscripts, which have never been published and are not subject to publication in others periodicals, are accepted for a peer-reviewed journal “Systems and Technologies”. To publish an article in Issue 2, you should fill in an application form and send the article to editor@st.umsf.in.ua before March 27, 2026.

An email should have RE “Article for Systems and Technologies. Issue 2, 2026 (indicate the issue number the article is submitted to). Authors obligatorily receive an email confirming the scientific article’s acceptance and assessment by the editorial board.

Attention! If you have not received a confirmation letter in more than 7 working days, contact the editorial office.

Academic integrity

The Editorial Board guarantees high-quality anonymous peer-review of articles and their check for plagiarism using StrikePlagiarism.com by the Polish company Plagiat.pl.

Systems and Technologies operates under the Diamond Open Access model.

Submission, peer review, editorial processing, and publication of articles are provided free of charge. The Editorial Board does not charge authors any fees or Article Processing Charges (APCs) at any stage of the editorial process.

Decisions on the acceptance or rejection of manuscripts are made solely on the basis of their relevance to the journal’s scope, the results of peer review, and the scientific quality of the research, and are not influenced by any financial considerations.

Authors may, if they wish, order a printed copy of the journal issue.

The cost of a printed copy is UAH 800. Payment for a printed copy is entirely optional and is not related to the submission, peer-review process, acceptance, or publication of an article.

Requirement for article content and design

Article language: Ukrainian or English

A manuscript should comprise the following elements:

1. UDC (left-aligned). To identify a code, use http://www.udcsummary.info/php/index.php?lang=uk;
2. the author’s initials and surname (semi bold), academic degree and rank, position and affiliation (full name), ORCID. Each co-author is indicated on a new line.
3. an article title (align middle, semi-bold);
4. an abstract and keywords in Ukrainian (at least 1800 printed characters);
5. the author’s initials and surname, an article title and abstract in English (2000–2500 printed characters);
6. article text comprising the following elements:
   Problem statement.
   Analysis of recent research and publications.
   Research purpose.
   Basic material presentation.
   Conclusions and prospects for further research.
7. Bibliography list is drafted in the order of citation or alphabetically (DSTU 8302:2015 “Information and documentation. Bibliographic reference. General provisions and compilation rules”).
   In-text references are put in square brackets [1, p. 56; 7, p. 45–51].
   To ensure the quality of scientific citations, the DOI of each source (if available) must be provided in the list of references.
8. References (transliteration) (APA Style Reference Citations).

The above elements are put in bold in text.

Problem statement is presented in general: it is highlighted its relation to important scientific or practical tasks. When analysing recent research and publications the author relies on and which deal with the problem concerned and its solution, it is necessary to mark previously unsolved parts of the general problem the article is devoted to. Basic material presentation involves complete substantiation of research findings.

Article text should be typed using Microsoft Word. File format – RTF or DOC(Х).

Volume: 12 – 20 pages (basic part), Times New Roman – 14, line spacing - 1.5, margins – 2 cm, paragraph indention – 1 cm. Formatting paragraphs via spaces or tabs is not allowed. Text wrap is not allowed. Pages are not numbered.

Source of figures and tables are specified (Source:….). Tables, graphs and figures should be black and white. Illustrative materials should be placed after referring to them in the text. Figures are additionally submitted as a separate Microsoft Excel file. The simultaneous use of tables and graphs to explain the same provisions is not recommended.

Mathematical formulas should be carefully checked and clearly printed. Formulas are suggested to be designed using MathType 4.0 (6.0) Equation for MS Word, or Microsoft Equation 3.0 with the following character sizes: regular - 14 ts, large index - 10 ts, small index - 7 ts, large symbol - 18 ts, small symbol - 12 ts. Formulas must be separated by one line from other text, centered, numbered in round brackets, and right-aligned.

In-text literature references are put in square brackets, which indicate the position number in the list of references and page.

Prohibition to refer to the aggressor state’s scholarly papers

It is prohibited citing and including in the reference list russian-language contributions published in any country, incl. papers written in other languages but published in russia and belarus.

The editors reserve the right to reject materials due to poor originality (less than 80%), non-conformity with journal focus, and violation of terms or design requirements.

Authors should guarantee they have received all necessary permits for using materials protected by copyright.

The date of receipt of the article’s final version by the editorial board is considered the date of receipt of the manuscript by the editors.